Psychiatric reports have been ordered into the man accused of planting a hoax device in Swansea’s busy Quadrant shopping centre.

Swansea Crown Court heard a determination needed to be made into whether Richard Punchard was fit to enter a plea in the case.

The discovery of a package near the Debenhams store in the Quadrant on May 24 led to the evacuation of the centre.

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It happened just days after the suicide bomb attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester Arena, which killed 22 and injured 116 others.

An armed police officer in Union Street after the evacuation of Swansea's Quadrant shopping centre

Punchard, aged 21, of Ozanam Court, Portmead, Swansea, was subsequently charged with planting a device that would cause people to believe it was likely to explode or ignite and cause damage — an offence under the Criminal Law Act 1977.